Canary in the Moore Appeal? - Does the House candidacy of Roy Moore's lawyer presage a presidential run by the Republican Nader? By Timothy Noah
It's hard to deny Timothy Noah's logic. Wouldn't it balance the presidential race if Roy Moore, the Ten Commandments judge, ran for president and took Bush's legs out from under him on the right? Seems like just about every race these days goes to the candidate who keeps out semi-serious challengers on his end of the ideological spectrum--see Perot's effect on the 1992 race, Nader's impact on the 2000 election--so it would be nice to see Nader and Moore offset one another so the American people can get down to the business of legitimately choosing between Bush and Kerry. Even more than we can't afford four more years of Bush, we can't afford another election where the guy who ends up in the White House and those who think like him get less votes than people on the other side.
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